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McMahon, city D.A.s call on state legislators to make spitting on transit workers a misdemeanor crime
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
District Attorney Michael E. McMahon, at a press conference Wednesday, calls for stricter penalties against people who spit on transit workers. (Photo courtesy of Pete Donohue/TWU Local 100)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. District Attorney Michael E. McMahon and the city’s other four top prosecutors called on state legislators Wednesday to takes steps to protect the city’s transit workers.
McMahon, alongside Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and Michelle Bayer, deputy chief of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s Trial Division, joined in calls of support of an amendment to the state’s penal code that would make spitting on a transit worker a misdemeanor. ....

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